For this discussion, you will:
• Select a particular patient care issue in your practice
area that you would like to research at some point in your career.
(TOPIC- Pediatric home health care. In the home setting there is
only one nurse available, so apart from calling 911, the nurse is
essentially on her own.)
• Use that particular patient care issue as a point of
reference for this discussion.
• Identify 4–6 data elements that you have access to as a
clinician or as an employee of the organization.
• Identify the scales of measurement for each of the data
elements that you have mentioned (for example, blood pressure data
from the patient record would be ratio measurement; gender of the
patient would be nominal measurement). If you are uncertain, use
the definitions in the Understanding Nursing Research text, Chapter
10, as your guide.
• Describe which of the data elements might be dependent upon
various types of technologies, such as monitoring devices,
telecommunications, or data archives.
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